Twitch streamer KaitlinWitcher baffled after seriously odd DMCA ban Instagram: @piddleass \/ NickelodeonTwitch is arguably one of, if not the most, popular live-streaming platforms on the net; but considering the current DMCA debacle, streamers are getting banned left and right for even a few seconds of copyrighted material being played during their broadcasts. This development has led many IRL streamers to consider switching from that category to something safer, rather than traveling to locations where music might be playing over loudspeakers \u2014 but sometimes, even this isn\u2019t enough. In fact, some broadcasters have gotten in trouble with Twitch over copyrighted emotes in their chat. This unfortunately may have happened to popular streamer KaitlinWitcher, who found her channel suddenly banned on March 18. In a series of now-privated tweets, the broadcaster expressed complete confusion as to why her channel was suddenly taken down, unsure as to why she\u2019d been banned. View this post on Instagram Shortly thereafter, KaitlinWitcher revealed she\u2019d been sent an email stating that her emote, \u2018Koot Blood,\u2019 was copyrighted \u2014 although she couldn\u2019t understand how that was the case, as the emote is simply the word \u201cBlood Lust\u201d in big red lettering. \u201cI got an email saying koot blood was copyrighted?\u201d she wrote. \u201cIt was just blood lust typed out, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d However, that may not have been the exact reason for her Twitch suspension; the streamer also hypothesized that she may have gotten DMCA\u2019d due to playing a song from popular cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender during a stream. More specifically, the song isn\u2019t necessarily an official \u201ctrack\u201d; it\u2019s taken from a part of the show where the \u201cGaang\u201d are sung a local folktale during their travels, which has become somewhat of a meme in the show\u2019s community. \u201c\u2026would 10 seconds of the secret tunnel song from Avatar: The Last Airbender get me a DMCA strike on Twitch?\u201d the streamer asked. \u201cDoes anyone know? LOL.\u201d For now, it seems that one of these two reasons could be related to KaitlinWitcher\u2019s sudden ban \u2014 but either way, both are definitely odd reasons to be suspended from the platform. Luckily, Twitch has unrolled a new tool to better help streamers avoid potential DMCA takedowns, which should help KaitlinWitcher combat the issue fairly soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer KaitlinWitcher baffled after seriously odd DMCA ban Instagram: @piddleass \/ NickelodeonTwitch is arguably one of, if not the most, popular live-streaming platforms on the net; but considering the current DMCA debacle, streamers are getting banned left and right for even a few seconds of copyrighted material being played during their broadcasts. This development […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}